Worth A Glance

  • And On An Entirely Unrelated Note

    In researching Chet Robinson’s history for the previous piece, I was investigating the private Stone School in Boston which he attended, and came across the following ad in something called…

  • Interior Design, and Redesign, Harvard 1900

    Shortly after last year’s FDR dinner, I received an email from a certain Mr. Dave Robinson in Maine, inquiring as to whether or not we’d be interested in taking a…

  • Curtis Roosevelt Topic Announced, and an Update

    Curtis Roosevelt, eldest grandson of FDR and our guest speaker for the Third Annual FDR Memorial Lecture and Dinner has announced that he will be discussing Past as Prologue: FDR,…

  • Advance Tickets for the 3rd Annual FDR Memorial Lecture Now Available

    Good news! Advance tickets for the February 27th event will be available starting tomorrow 1/7/10 at noon EST at the Harvard Box Office. While online sales won’t open to the…

  • Christmas Revised: December 1900

    When the streets of the city are whitened with snow And windows coated with rime, When the tree is awaiting its wonderful fruit, And the bells are beginning to chime,…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: Epilogue

    Long before I had ever heard of the FDR Suite, I’d visited an absolutely spectacular spot on California’s coast. Located along Highway 1, just south of Big Sur, the Julia…